Bloggiesta, It’s Like Spring Cleaning For Your Blog!

Have you heard of Bloggiesta? It’s a series of blogging challenges that are like spring cleaning for your blog and it’s this weekend, March 30-April 1, 2012.

The blurb:

Bloggiesta is a three day event where participants will spend as much time as they can working on fixing all those pesky blog related tasks…. all those things that you think “some day I’m going to clean that up, or change that around, or add that thing!” Everyone will post a “to do” list, or goals they want to accomplish and then all of us will work together to get our lists done. The fun thing is that we can cheer each other on, and learn from each other and have a blast doing it. It’s the perfect time to figure out that something you’ve always wanted to do, but didn’t know how… or to get caught up on reviews, or to fix your labels, or take control of your Reader… or do oh so many other things!

I actually have four different blogs (yes, blogging is an illness :-)) and they all need a bit of sprucing up.

As for goals, I’d like to:

Back up all of them and find a way to create back ups that is easier to do so I will do them more often. Edit: WordPress.org has information about backing up blogs – I am trying out the plugin Online Backup on my blogs – got it installed and it is backing up -Nice!

Joy of Joy’s Book Blog stopped by to let us know about her Bloggiesta Pinterest challenge. If you aren’t familiar with Pinterest, she has a neat how-to-sign-up post and she’ll even help you with an invitation. Check the comments for even more good advice.

Comment: I have been wanting to do a better job with Goodreads for awhile, but only had signed up for an account and never really used it. Today I tried to sign in to take part in the challenge. Goodreads immediately created a brand new account for me using my Facebook account and was contacting all my Facebook friends before I realized things were going wrong. It is funny now, but I was frantic for a few minutes trying to stop it. Now I have to try to delete the new account without losing my old one. Sometimes social media is a bit too social.

The good news: I found some new friends.

Has anyone tried writing their review in Goodreads and then publishing it to their blog? How does that work for you?

Consider whether or not to change the theme. It is an old clunker as far as the comments are in the header, no one knows how to leave a comment, plus the pages aren’t in the tabs correctly. But because it is a clunker, I’m really afraid to try to tinker with it by changing the css. Any thoughts would be appreciated.

Freshen up the science books for kids page and research more great STEM books that are coming out

Edit: Did a blog post that I have been putting off about this and did some research.

Organize mystery seeds into one page of pictures with links to answers

Edit: Oh well, this was an epic fail. Turns out thumbnails are too small to see. Well, now I know.

See, setting goals was helpful already. I’m sure as I read through other people’s goals I will think of more things to add to the list.

I’d love to hear from you if you decide to take the challenge, too.

Edit: What a great challenge! I had so much fun, met some wonderful new people and accomplished a lot, too. The biggest thing I learned was the usefulness of having goals and spending the time to work through them. It has been so energizing!

You’ve got a ton of blogs! I love it! You can totally do all your goals. Everyone works at a different pace, what someone else would take weeks , you can do in a weekend! I’ve got a big list myself! But, it all needs done and I have a toddler so a blogging marathon is perfect. I like to get things organized. Good luck!

I’m always so impressed with people who have multiple blogs like you do. It’s amazing! You look like you’ve got a lot to accomplish, but it all looks doable. Good luck and thanks for joining in Bloggiesta!

I had been using Pinterest for a while now and had no idea that I could use it to promote my blog. I added a Follow Me on Pinterest button and a pin it button to my blog and then found out that people had already been pinning from my blog -kind of cool!

Go you for having 4 blogs!!! I find it sometimes overwhelming just maintaining one blog so I give you lots of kudos!!!!